job screening question

Fri Jul 6 01:33:53 UTC 2012

> Can you post a sample of the "answers" you have received; which
> prompted you the ask this question to begin with.

I've been asking the question in phone interviews for months. I
couldn't quote them properly but the answers were... discouraging. No
one beyond ping and traceroute.

I asked HR last week to start asking the question as a pre-screen and
forward me the answer. The first one responded "This would block all
IP traffic." I figured it was time for a sanity check to make sure the
question was reasonable.

Regards,
Bill

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